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Transit group loses bid to join lawsuit against ORBP

September 10, 2010 – 4:15 pm

A federal judge has denied a transit group’s motion to join a lawsuit that remains a major obstacle to the $4.1 billion Ohio River Bridges Project. In June, the non-profit Coalition for the Advancement of Regional Transportation (CART) had filed a motion to intervene in a pending lawsuit claiming that the Federal Highway Administration violated [...]

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ORBP propaganda video (re)surfaces

August 3, 2010 – 4:38 pm

We saw this over at The ‘Ville Voice, but the below video — courtesy of the so-called Bridges Coalition (formerly Build The Bridges Coalition (formerly Please Build The Bridges As Soon As Humanly Possible Coalition)) — is too fantastic in its white-washing of factual reality that to not re-post it here would, I think, be [...]

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No Tolls Group Petitions to De-list Drumanard

June 17, 2010 – 4:21 pm

Members of the Facebook group Say No To Bridge Tolls have submitted a petition to the Kentucky Heritage Council in an effort to de-list the Drumanard Estate from the National Register of Historic Places, citing multiple inconsistencies with the East End Bridge-blocking estate’s 1988 boundary-increase application packet, and calling for an audit of the decision-making [...]

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Dr. Dan Unveils Massive Public Transportation Plan

December 3, 2009 – 6:22 pm

In the lobby of TARC’s downtown Union Station headquarters — where less than a century ago the blowing of train whistles and the clacking of wheels-on-rail were commonplace — Lt. Gov. and Democratic Senate candidate Daniel Mongiardo unveiled what amounts to the boldest vision for public transportation Louisville and the commonwealth-at-large since the construction of [...]

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If a bridge falls in the Ohio…

September 14, 2009 – 4:36 pm

You have to give it to this city sometimes. Whenever there’s a freak natural disaster (or several), you can at least count on them to be vigorously retroactive in their efforts to haphazardly band-aid any infrastructural hemorrhaging. Be it debris cleanup due to freak flood, errant windstorm or biblical snowfall, you can rest assured that [...]

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Lawson Phone Tapes Stir Controversy, Pedophile Metaphors

June 4, 2009 – 11:55 am

Like most allegedly corrupt individuals whom have had the unfortunate luck in having their conversations recorded, disgraced eastern Kentucky asphalt magnate Leonard Lawson is doing whatever he can to save as much of his ass as can be saved; from the C-J: FRANKFORT, Ky. — Defense attorneys for road contractor Leonard Lawson argued during a [...]

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Citizen Lawson (or, Why More Roads Equals Less)

May 27, 2009 – 10:05 pm

When he was 18, Leonard Lawson worked on a highway project  — his first of many — as an entry-level maintenance worker. It was good, honest work for a boy hailing from Beverly, Kentucky, a hamlet located near the Commonwealth’s poverty-stricken Eastern coal fields; perched on the southwestern cusp of the Cumberland Plateau just east [...]

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Barry the Bicycle Rides Again… Part I

February 12, 2009 – 6:18 pm

With Louisville’s stunted urban renaissance awaiting the green light from the credit market gods, the timing for the region’s second Bike Summit couldn’t have been more appropriate. Held in the gymnasium of the old Male High School, the speaker/discussion-driven symposium gathered some 270 cycling activists, addicts, and enthusiasts, as well as city officials and transportation planners [...]

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